WFP CHIEF VISITS LEBANON -- FOOD NEEDS BEING MET AS NORMAL LIFE SLOWLY RESUMES GHAZIEH, Lebanon - The Executive Director of the United Nations World Food Programme, James Morris, who is currently visiting Lebanon, today travelled south to see for himself the impact of the war on a town badly damaged by bombing and to review the needs of the people as they rebuild their lives after nearly five wee
HARVEST PROSPECTS FOR SOUTHERN AFRICA PROMISING BUT LONG-TERM PROBLEMS PERSIST JOHANNESBURG – James T. Morris, the U.N. Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for Humanitarian Needs in Southern Africa, said on Thursday that southern Africa may be on the cusp of better harvests but the underlying causes of the region’s four-year crisis still remain and must be addressed.
UN LEADERS URGE NEW EFFORT TO END SUFFERING OF MILLIONS IN AFRICA’S GREAT LAKES REGION BUJUMBURA – The heads of three of the largest United Nations humanitarian agencies today urged the international community to match political progress in the Great Lakes region with a new commitment to end the suffering of the millions of people forgotten by the rest of the world.
HIGH ENERGY BISCUITS AIRLIFTED TO KENYA TO FEED 200,000 FLOOD VICTIMS NAIROBI – A Boeing 747 jumbo jet chartered by the United Nations World Food Programme landed today in Nairobi, delivering 94 metric tons of high energy biscuits from a depot in Brindisi, Italy, for hundreds of thousands of victims of Kenya’s largest floods in years.